Skype and Microsoft
At a price of $8.5 Billion all-cash deal with close to $2.5 Billion going to ebay and ~$1.2 Billion for the founders, Microsoft has made a strategic purchase of Skype. I believe Lync and Skype will have superficial integration for user credentials and cross-communication but beyond that, I doubt we will see anything any time soon. The acquisition is more about not letting Google get their hands on Skype. I also think that Microsoft won’t be killing off Skype clients for other platforms since losing those users would be simply stupid.
Skype becoming a part of Windows Live and becoming critical for video calls between Kinect, PC (Windows+Mac+Linux) and phones is highly likely or at least exciting.
An excerpt from my article on how Skype and Microsoft make sense for Techie Buzz:
There is a belief that Microsoft will be coming up their answer to FaceTime for WP7 which will be powered by Lync in the background but might have a different branding, a re-branded Skype simply makes Microsoft’s efforts easier. While the number $8 Billion sounds crazy, there were some really smart people at Redmond crunching numbers projecting the worth of this acquisition. Keeping in mind cloud and communication in the next 5 years, Skype as part of Microsoft gives the Redmond company a huge user base and infrastructure that will not be part of either Facebook or Google or Apple.
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i dont think anything would change much for skype with this deal . i just hope that its linux app dont suffer
I don’t think it will, the Skype division is separate, the problems will be when they have to work with other teams to integrate the product features.
yeah, you gain some but have to pay for it. i dont understand the problem of working with other teams . are you referring to people working for ‘ Skype’
Just hope that there are more good features from Skype. Perhaps the new coming up Microsoft Windows will have skype installed on your computer which means you don’t have to download and install it anymore. Who knows?